News & Reviews November 29, 2011 • 2 min read News from Promethea Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein is undoubtedly one of the most impressive games I reviewed this year. It stands out from a lot of…
Blogging November 29, 2011 • 3 min read Puerto Rico Role Players: spreading our wings… And our horizons! If you regularly read my posts you’ll have noticed that from time to time I talk about the Puerto Rico Role Players group. Along…
News & Reviews November 28, 2011 • 2 min read Legend – Help raising money for Child’s Play and get a cool RPG in exchange Rule of Cool Gaming’s Legend RPG has probably the most generic name a fantasy RPG could have, but it’s actually a pretty interesting product.…
Game Design November 28, 2011 • 4 min read NaGa DeMon: I surrender! As I’ve written last week, I doubt I will get my NaGa DeMon project done. Today is November 28th and Astronauts is far from…
Ask The Readers November 25, 2011 • 5 min read A dearth of ideas… As I sit here pondering about role-playing games, in my turkey fuelled semi-conscious state of mind, the mind wanders to all those unused campaign…
Advice November 24, 2011 • 4 min read Searching For The Best RPG I have been on an epic quest these last few months tirelessly searching for what could be considered the very best table top pen…
Non-RPG November 23, 2011 • 4 min read What was, what is and what will be After a few days being sick, I finally went back to work today. I think this is a perfect opportunity to give you an…
Blogging November 22, 2011 • 4 min read Change is good! “To everything – turn, turn, turn There is a season – turn, turn, turn” From the song by The Byrds, by way of another…
Advice November 17, 2011 • 2 min read Ask The Stargazer: “How should one go about starting an rpg blog?” Yesterday I got the following email: Dear Michael/Stargazer, My question for you sir, is this? How should one go about starting an RPG blog?…
Atomic Highway November 17, 2011 • 1 min read Freebies: Atomic Highway Atomic Highway, an excellent post-apocalyptic roleplaying game written by Colin Chapman is now available for free! Here’s what Colin has written in the announcement…
News & Reviews November 16, 2011 • 1 min read Guerrero, Pícaro y Mago The deed is done! Warrior, Rogue & Mage has been translated into Spanish! You can check out the game’s announcement on the Arcano XIII…
Ask The Readers November 16, 2011 • 2 min read Ask The Readers: Tell me about Gamma World! Let me start by saying that I didn’t particularly enjoy playing D&D 4th Edition. Over the course of about half a dozen game sessions…
Game Design November 14, 2011 • 3 min read My NaGa DeMon diary #2 My project is progressing much slower than I anticipated. But I actually made some progress and slowly, very slowly the crunch part of the…
Advice November 11, 2011 • 5 min read TRPBTNTWA or “Things Role Playing Bloggers Tend Not To Write About” Fellow RPG blogger Noisms came up with a list of subjects RPG bloggers usually don’t write about. Alas I was oblivious to the existence…
Random musings November 9, 2011 • 3 min read Using the Kindle at the game table Yesterday I finally got my Kindle. For quite a while I have been pondering whether I should buy one or not. Last August I…
Freebies November 8, 2011 • 1 min read Update: WR&M in Spanish Yesterday I got the final PDF of the Spanish translation of WR&M. I have to admit I can’t judge the quality of the translation…
Game Design November 7, 2011 • 2 min read My NaGa DeMon diary #1 On Friday I announced my project for this year’s NaGa DeMon. It will be a near future hard science fiction roleplaying game called Astronauts.…
Fluff/Inspiration November 4, 2011 • 1 min read Astronauts I finally had an idea for what I want to work on for NaGa DeMon! Astronauts will be a hard sf roleplaying game set…
Advice November 4, 2011 • 3 min read Putting fantastic back into Fantasy Yesterday I played in another session of Chris McDowall’s “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. As always we had a blast and it also…
Site News November 2, 2011 • 1 min read Update on the status of “Ask the Stargazer!” I just wanted to give you a small update on the new “Ask the Stargazer!” feature I have talked about recently. I’ve got six…